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Direct linkKaren Singer-Freeman – Assessment Update, 2024
A common feature of many assessment plans is the use of multiple-choice questions. Although there are criticisms of multiple-choice questions, this assessment format is here to stay--multiple-choice questions are effective means of evaluation in large classes, central to many licensing and entry exams, used in most adaptive learning platforms, and…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Multiple Choice Tests, Student Evaluation, Learning Processes
Labudde, Peter – Contributions from Science Education Research, 2019
In this chapter, eight foci relevant for science educators are presented and illustrated by paradigmatic examples and discussed in two parts. The first part "from science education to practice and authorities" discusses the four foci of: (1) developing concepts for instruction; (2) responding to the needs of schools; (3) connecting…
Descriptors: Science Education, Educational Practices, Educational Policy, Science Curriculum
Soto, Amanda C.; Taylor, Melinda A. – Pearson Education, Inc., 2013
Learning progressions represent a set of skills or pieces of knowledge ordered sequentially from least to most complex. This sequence can guide instruction as well as assessment content. This paper describes several useful methods for validating learning progressions including validating the relationship between the progression and student…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Sequential Learning, Validity, Mastery Learning
Amelung, M.; Krieger, K.; Rosner, D. – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2011
Assessment is an essential element in learning processes. It is therefore not unsurprising that almost all learning management systems (LMSs) offer support for assessment, e.g., for the creation, execution, and evaluation of multiple choice tests. We have designed and implemented generic support for assessment that is based on assignments that…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Programming Languages, Assignments, Programming
Tucker, Bill – Educational Leadership, 2009
New technology-enabled assessments offer the potential to understand more than just whether a student answered a test question right or wrong. Using multiple forms of media that enable both visual and graphical representations, these assessments present complex, multistep problems for students to solve and collect detailed information about an…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Problem Solving, Student Characteristics, Information Technology
Developing a Training Program to Improve Teacher Effectiveness. A Prospectus for Research Proposals.
Powell, J. C. – 1980
The selection of wrong answers for multiple choice tests appears not to be blind guessing, as the current theory assumes, but represents systematic choice based upon the ways in which learners extract meaning and solve problems. It appears the departures from "expected" answers arise when the learner interprets the question in a manner different…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education
